Yemen is working urgently to ween itself off of the country’s dwindling oil output. But security, political and bureaucratic hurdles are getting in the way.

Saudi Arabia must redraw its foreign policy to manage the region’s new geopolitical realities – and it faces significant hurdles along the way.

Gangs of seaborne bandits are plaguing a key international shipping route, but a showdown with the world’s navies looms.

Middle East consultant Reza Zia-Ebrahimi argues that relations with Iran need to focus on the right person – and it isn’t President Ahmadinejad.

A lack of understanding has created dangerous misconceptions
about the country’s attention-grabbing maneuvers.

As the Middle East’s political landscape sways, GCC states are stockpiling high-tech weapons to protect themselves in uncertain times.

Price riots in Egypt are forcing the government to rethink the country’s
subsidy regime. But is it just tinkering, or something more?

Ignore the saber-rattling and nukes fears that dominate the headlines. Iran surprises and delights all who visit it.

Qatar’s staging of the Asian Games was just the start of the country’s race to best its equally ambitious neighbors.

Iraq’s cultural catastrophe continues, with highly organized gangs still plundering archaeological treasures five years after the US invasion.